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Not a big surprise, but I finally got around to cancelling. I have requested a refund, which is better than nothing.

It's not as drastic as it seems as I still have access through HGVC and I can get a discounted membership any time I want through my Grand Pacific properties, so I can still access the inventory when I need to. But at the moment, I can do better using other companies so there is no need to maintain this account. It was very fun while it lasted!

I just paid my RCI for another 5 years... everything in life goes up.... and we want to be able to trade into nice places and can only do it through RCI.... and with owning the Grandview at Las Vegas we already have really low MF's life is good RCI works for us....

I just paid my RCI for another 5 years... everything in life goes up.... and we want to be able to trade into nice places and can only do it through RCI.... and with owning the Grandview at Las Vegas we already have really low MF's life is good RCI works for us....

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Is this in points? Because my HGVC RCI account sees points inventory which (imo) is much better than what I see in my weeks account. I'm am truly glad that it works for you because when it works, it's lots of fun.

And I agree that our happiness depends on what we own to trade and where we want to go. Try as I might, I just couldn't find inventory that worked for us, but I can make good trades in II all day long for about $200 - including eplus (or ~$150 without). In fact I had to let 11 TPU's expire, even though I was searching right up until their expiration date. It didn't help that they were 5 tpu's and 6 tpu's and it wasn't worth it to pay to combine. All of the west coast inventory was either much more expensive in TPU's and I would have had to make another deposit and then pay to combine plus the exchange fee - so in the neighborhood of $350+ or it was just places that I wasn't interested in. I used to be fine with RCI, but the last two years weren't so good.

I have over 250 TPUs in RCI and am now actively looking for other options. I like the Global Choice option that HICV has where eligible deposits I make in RCI can for $75 be converted to HICV points. Given the RCI $239 and increasing exchange fee, I am better off moving it to HICV. Sure I pay the $75 fee to transfer and a $64 fee to Book in HICV, but I have access to some TX properties that are closer to home and the combined fee to book is $139 with NO guest fees to pay.

I will never cancel my account as my weeks account if included in my Wyndham membership. So because I do not may an annual fee, I do not need it to go away.

Is this in points? Because my HGVC RCI account sees points inventory which (imo) is much better than what I see in my weeks account. I'm am truly glad that it works for you because when it works, it's lots of fun.

And I agree that our happiness depends on what we own to trade and where we want to go. Try as I might, I just couldn't find inventory that worked for us, but I can make good trades in II all day long for about $200 - including eplus (or ~$150 without). In fact I had to let 11 TPU's expire, even though I was searching right up until their expiration date. It didn't help that they were 5 tpu's and 6 tpu's and it wasn't worth it to pay to combine. All of the west coast inventory was either much more expensive in TPU's and I would have had to make another deposit and then pay to combine plus the exchange fee - so in the neighborhood of $350+ or it was just places that I wasn't interested in. I used to be fine with RCI, but the last two years weren't so good.

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Yeah it must make a difference with point inventory and not TPU’s, if we didn’t have RCI we would only be able to trade in the Timeshares offered by Grandview and would not be able to have gone to Hawaii... and to Hilton Head every year.... it doesn’t seem fair you don’t have all the exchanges I have... it’s like a lower class.... we also have Platinum so we have got last minute trades into Hilton Head that we wouldn’t be able to do with out RCI.... Good luck in your trading!!! Dave

I had planned to cancel and made arrangements to use up my TPU but then...
plans changed and I still have 32 TPU to use AND
my husband went and bought another timeshare off eBay!

So we're back to having 4 ownerships, 3 of which can trade in RCI. We plan to use most of the time but I foresee plenty of need to deposit and exchange, thus I renewed and even upgraded to Platinum. OMG what am I doing??

I had planned to cancel and made arrangements to use up my TPU but then...
plans changed and I still have 32 TPU to use AND
my husband went and bought another timeshare off eBay!

So we're back to having 4 ownerships, 3 of which can trade in RCI. We plan to use most of the time but I foresee plenty of need to deposit and exchange, thus I renewed and even upgraded to Platinum. OMG what am I doing??

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It’s called the Timeshare Syndrome. We just can’t help ourselves. You are in good company. I have it too.

I just paid my RCI for another 5 years... everything in life goes up.... and we want to be able to trade into nice places and can only do it through RCI.... and with owning the Grandview at Las Vegas we already have really low MF's life is good RCI works for us....

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+1

I look at dealing with RCI that way also as RCi works for how I need to use it.

Also, I can easily rationalize the annual membership fee by just going to a presentation/tour to get resort updates, listen for any new T/S info from the resort perspective & get an incentive/gift card ($$) that offsets the RCI fee.

It’s called the Timeshare Syndrome. We just can’t help ourselves. You are in good company. I have it too.

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Ya...I wasn't going to deposit anymore, but I'm keeping my account for EV and LC. The only thing I would want/need to exchange into with RCI is DVC....but heck no not at 50-60 TPUs, I will go stay at a Marriott in Orlando instead. BUT....now they have been consistently at 30 TPUs....

I will have a decision next time my EOY that is dual comes up for deposit time again.....

Trading through exchange companies makes little sense to us anymore. Maintenance fees + annual membership fees + exchange fees + upgrade fees + resort fees have gotten crazy high. Thankfully, we have lots of flexibility, so we still get great use out of RCI and Interval for Extra Vacations, Getaways, and Last Minute Deals (way cheaper than exchanging). We love spending a week in a great resort for a few hundred dollars!

I have over 250 TPUs in RCI and am now actively looking for other options. I like the Global Choice option that HICV has where eligible deposits I make in RCI can for $75 be converted to HICV points. Given the RCI $239 and increasing exchange fee, I am better off moving it to HICV. Sure I pay the $75 fee to transfer and a $64 fee to Book in HICV, but I have access to some TX properties that are closer to home and the combined fee to book is $139 with NO guest fees to pay.

I will never cancel my account as my weeks account if included in my Wyndham membership. So because I do not may an annual fee, I do not need it to go away.

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Have you used global choice/access yet? A member on the HICV forum said they called and was told that regardless of tpu a deposit would only get 60,000 HICV points. I know this is contrary to your post a while back that indicated the points received were based on how many tpu's a week received.

Have you used global choice/access yet? A member on the HICV forum said they called and was told that regardless of tpu a deposit would only get 60,000 HICV points. I know this is contrary to your post a while back that indicated the points received were based on how many tpu's a week received.

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I have, but the TPU mapped to 60K. I am trying to locate the Global Choice documentation. PM me if you want me to send you info.

I called, and there is still a mapping, not just a single point value you obtain in HICV. (They are going to send me an email with this information.) These are the levels I would be depositing, so these are the only levels I wrote down, if you have higher TPUs then higher HICV Points would apply.